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Board Economics
Re: Money is an imaginary concept, but humanity is enslaved by it
by
deisik
on 19/03/2015, 09:37:08 UTC
Lets just say if some people did not have money, they would be as useful as a wet tissue.

If I didn't have money, I could offer my skills to barter for other goods or services. This is what money fixes, it creates a field where everyone can play on.
The problem is when all your skills and what you have to offer gets automated by machines that are 100000% more efficient and cheaper than you.

Well not really, someone must make those machines. Someone must maintain those machines. The only reason we simplify these tasks is to move on to other tasks.

In fact, the only reason why we (actually, producers) simplify these tasks is to make more profit by introducing more efficient production. Though I agree in general, the end result is essentially the same, i.e. we move from less interesting tasks to more interesting ones...